54. Since number can be spun, they are useless?

If you want to change minds you need numbers. Anecdotes don't cut it. A perception of the vastness of gun violence does not work.
If I saw CREDIBLE stats, not spun or manipulated, suggesting that we would be substantially safer with law x or y, I would be open to change my mind.
It is right to demand evidence. It is absolutely necessary in all cases to do so.